Closter Lawyers

Oscar J. Barbosa founded Diaspora Law aiming at connecting community-oriented attorneys to provide comprehensive immigration services. He brings his previous experience to provide the assistance the community currently seeks. Mr. Barbosa speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese (Conversational). Mr. Barbosa sees immigration as a human rights-oriented practice. As an organizer, he previously worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as a Legal Assistant and with the Service Employees International Union. As an Immigration Attorney, he has been able to explain complicated options in understandable terms to his clients. His previous academic and work experiences have taken him for extended periods to...

Paul Pawlowski joined the Law Firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. in 2009. Since then, he has continued to represent companies in several areas, including, but not limited to asset sales, development and real estate transactions. He has also expanded his practice to include representation of automobile dealership companies engaged in New Jerseyâs motor vehicle retail sector. www.sp-lawyers.com

With a venerable career spanning almost 20 years, Christian provides judicious legal representation to closely held businesses, ranging from startups and mid-sized businesses to large corporations, in complex business and commercial litigation, as well as general corporate matters and mergers and acquisitions. Christian founded the Jensen Law Firm in Basking Ridge, New Jersey to serve as fractional / outside general counsel and benefit clients throughout New Jersey, New York and nationally. The Jensen Law Firm provides outside general business counsel services and focuses on all types of day-to-day business needs including complex business litigation, employment and transactional services/M&A. As a general...

General Practice. Wills, Real Estate Closings, Claims, 2009-present
AIG Claims Analyst, New York, 1985-2008
INA/CIGNA Insurance, Cincinnati, 1978-1984
USF&G Insurance, Cleveland, 1977-1978
New Jersey resident, 1959-1966; 1985-present.

When there is a complex real estate deal to be done, whether it is a purchase or sale, tax appeal, or other legal matter, prominent real estate developers and investors call on Alan Hammer. For over 50 years, Alan has concentrated his practice in the areas of investment real estate transactions and tax appeals, representing the purchasers and sellers of office buildings, shopping centers, industrial facilities, apartment complexes, and vacant land. Alan is also personally active in the acquisition, ownership, management, and operation of investment properties, primarily multifamily complexes, throughout New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. He is also recognized for...

Doug Kortrey is a former in-house attorney who has held various positions in privately held and publicly traded technology and communications companies and who specializes in the areas of commercial contracting, licensing (software, content and other intellectual property), employment law, telecommunications, law department management and intellectual property portfolio management. He has served as an advisor to and counseled start-up, growth and mature companies for more than 25 years providing legal and business advice to technology innovators on new product development and in negotiations of inbound services agreements, marketing and distribution agreements, and domestic and international outsourcing arrangements.

Chair, Real Estate Tax Appeals Daniel Pollak focuses his practice on state and local taxation, primarily representing taxpayers and municipalities in real estate tax appeals before the Tax Court of New Jersey and county boards of taxation. His representation of taxpayers includes the owners of virtually all categories of income-producing properties including shopping centers, hotels, offices, apartment buildings, banks, and country clubs. He also represents condominium complexes and owners of large single-family residential properties. During the course of his career, he has also represented municipalities in the defense of tax appeals. Additionally, Dan handles exemptions, condemnations, farmland qualification cases, and claims...

Chair, Corporate Transactions & Financial Services Brian Richard Lenker represents lending institutions and businesses across a broad range of corporate and commercial finance transactions. A member of the Firm’s Executive Committee, Brian is a highly experienced business lawyer with a deep knowledge of banking, corporate, and tax laws. Brian focuses his practice on commercial lending, acquisitions, sales, reorganizations of businesses, and real estate law. Representing banks, commercial real estate clients, and business entities ranging from start-ups to well established private corporations to health care companies to large supermarket chains, Brian applies his extensive knowledge of structured finance and asset-based lending to help...

A graduate of Smith College with a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, Monika spent over 25 years fighting for the rights of consumers, first at Bedford Stuyvesant Legal Services and then at District Council 37’s Municipal Employees Legal Services Plan (DC37 MELS) in New York City. Monika defended tenants from eviction proceedings and managed hundreds of consumer chapter 7 and chapter 13 bankruptcy cases. Inspired to do more, Monika established her own law practice in 2005 in Monmouth Beach, NJ, where for 15 years she continued protecting consumers and advocating for their rights.

Monika is also an experienced...